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Book #51014] FRIDAY BLACK. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

FRIDAY BLACK Stories

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame.

New York: Mariner Books, 2018. First Edition / First Printing. Softcover. SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Strong debut story collection that takes a satirical look at..... #51014

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LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

Alam, Rumaan

New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2020. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction. A family's..... #51019

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Book #51020] LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND. Rumaan Alam

New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2020. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Powell Books' Indiespensable edition with slipcase and a small chap book. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page..... #51020

Price: $150.00 save 15% $127.50

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

Alam, Rumaan

New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2020. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction. A family's tranquil Airbnb vacation on Long Island turns..... #51021

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LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

Alam, Rumaan

London: Bloomsbury, 2020. First UK Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Waterstone's special edition with sprayed page edges with deer design pattern which ties into the cover artwork. SIGNED by Alam..... #51022

Price: $80.00 save 15% $68.00

The Power.

Alderman, Naomi.

London: Viking Penguin Books, 2016. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. True first, preceding the American edition which was published a year later. In this feminist dystopian novel, women develop..... #51042

Price: $300.00 save 15% $255.00

MANNERS.

Aliki.

New York: Greenwillow Books, 1990. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED WITH DRAWING of elephant by Aliki on the page facing the title page. 4to, white pictorial boards. #50824

Price: $45.00 save 15% $38.25

SELECTED LONGER POEMS.

Ammons, A. R.

New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1980. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by Ammons on the title page. 8vo, red cloth. 104pp. #50319

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BALKAN JOURNAL.

Archer, Laird.

New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1944. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author on the front free-endpaper. Twenty one years in the Near East..... #50953

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Book #50963] IGOR STRAVINSKY. Merle Armitage, Edwin Corle

IGOR STRAVINSKY Works of Art By Pablo Picasso... Paul Klee... Marc Chagall... Edward Weston...

(Armitage, Merle) Corle, Edwin (ed.).

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Numerous illustrations, many printed on colored paper, and photos. Presentation copy inscribed & signed by Merle Armitage, the book's designer..... #50963

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Book #27613] WHO KNOWS WHAT CONSTITUTES A LIFE. Illustration by Elizabeth Murray. John Ashbery

WHO KNOWS WHAT CONSTITUTES A LIFE. Illustration by Elizabeth Murray. A Poem. [Signed Lettered Edition]

Ashbery, John.

Calais, Vermont: Z Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Of a total edition of 226, this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Ashbery and an original bound-in color print..... #27613

Price: $500.00 save 15% $425.00

MARGINALIA [signed by both].

Auden, W. H.; Scott, Laurence.

Cambridge, MA: Ibex Press, 1966. Signed Limited First Edition. Softcover. Printed and illustrated by Laurence Scott. Out of a total edition of 150 copies, this is one of 45 hors..... #30257

Price: $400.00 save 15% $340.00

Book #50873] THE DYER'S HAND. W. H. Auden

THE DYER'S HAND And Other Essays

Auden, W.H.

New York: Random House, 1962. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Auden on the front fly: "Irving Drutman may skip as he likes W.H.A." Additionally, SIGNED..... #50873

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INTERVIEWS WITH FRANCIS BACON [SIGNED & INSCRIBED] With 94 Illustrations.

(Bacon, Francis) Sylvester, David.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. Simultaneous First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Inscribed "To John with all my best wishes/ Francis Bacon" on the front flyleaf (the half-title page). The recipient of..... #29392

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I WAS THERE: WITH THE YANKS ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1917-1919.

Baldridge; C. Leroy.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Collection of sketches and illustrations by Baldridge who was a camion driver with the French army in..... #50800

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CHRONOPOLIS AND OTHER STORIES

Ballard, J. G.

New York: Putnam, 1974. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Collection of 16 of Ballard's best short stories: "The Voices of Time" (1960), "The Drowned Giant" (1964), "The Terminal Beach"..... #51044

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THE CRYSTAL WORLD.

Ballard, J. G.

New York: Berkley Medallion, 1966. First U.S. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Author's fourth novel. This paperback edition was preceded by a hardcover edition in the U.K. and U.S. A Berkley Medallion..... #51043

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HIGH-RISE

Ballard, J. G.

New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1977. First U.S. Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition, preceded by the U.K. edition published by Jonathan Cape. Classic dystopian novel about the..... #51045

Price: $175.00 save 15% $148.75

THE WASP FACTORY.

Banks, Iain.

London: MacMillan, 1984. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Acclaimed Scottish writer's first novel. Provocative and twisted novel that follows the disturbing life of sixteen year-old living on a remote..... #50987

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Book #50930] REGGAE OR NOT! Amiri Baraka, Leroi Jones

REGGAE OR NOT! Poems

Baraka, Amiri (Leroi Jones).

New York: Contact II Publications, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Cover drawing by Teresa Berasi. One long poem. Original 8vo printed, stapled wrappers. #50930

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Book #50928] REPERCUSSIONS. Timothy Barcomb

REPERCUSSIONS Books. Libraries & the triumph of Human Freedom

Barcomb, Timothy.

East Burke Vermont: Plowboy Press, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Poetry chapbook. Attractive letterpress production bound by hand in Fabriano Miliani Ingres. One of 150 copies printed and signed by the..... #50928

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THE BEST OF H. E. BATES - ADVANCE UNCORRECTED HARDCOVER PROOF.

Bates, H.E. (preface by Henry Miller).

Boston: Little Brown, 1963. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. This is a hardcover "Uncorrected Advance Proof" as indicated by the publisher's sticker affixed to the front of the dust..... #50642

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Book #50908] FOLLOWING IS THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF SAUL BELLOW BEFORE THE INAUGURAL SESSION OF THE...

FOLLOWING IS THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF SAUL BELLOW BEFORE THE INAUGURAL SESSION OF THE XXXIV INTERNATIONAL P.E.N. CONGRESS JUNE 13, 1966 AT LOEB STUDENT CENTER, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.

Bellow, Saul.

New York: New York University, 1966. First Edition. Stapled Sheets. Copy of a keynote address by Bellow, printed on 9 xeroxed and stapled pages (8.5" x 11"), assembled and distributed..... #50908

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Book #50746] PROMISES TO KEEP. Joe Biden

PROMISES TO KEEP On Life and Politics

Biden, Joe.

New York: Random House, 2007. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by President Biden on the the title page in year of publication: "Steve / Thanks for..... #50746

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Book #26529] LOOKING FOR THE RAINBOW SIGN. Martin Booth

LOOKING FOR THE RAINBOW SIGN Poems of America (DEDICATION COPY)

Booth, Martin.

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe Books, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. A half-dedication copy. Warmly inscribed by Booth to one of the two (American) dedicatees whose names are printed on the..... #26529

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Book #27943] "On the Road to Merrivale" Martin Booth

"On the Road to Merrivale" A Poem

Booth, Martin.

Autograph poem. Fair copy of this poem written out in Booth's hand "for Bill and Mary" [Ewert] and dated in 1986. Like Booth [of Sceptre Press fame] Bill Ewert was..... #27943

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Book #30460] BRAZZAVILLE BEACH. William Boyd

BRAZZAVILLE BEACH. A Novel

Boyd, William.

London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Boyd on the title-page. 8vo boards. #30460

Price: $75.00 save 15% $63.75

THIS IS NOT A LETTER AND OTHER POEMS.

Boyle, Kay.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1985. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by Boyle on the title page. Errata slip tipped in on front endpaper. Small 8vo, burnt..... #30336

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Book #30337] WORDS THAT MUST SOMEHOW BE SAID. Kay Boyle, Elizabeth S. Bell

WORDS THAT MUST SOMEHOW BE SAID Selected Essays

Boyle, Kay; Bell, Elizabeth S. (editor).

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth S. Bell. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Boyle to a local theater critic..... #30337

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Book #26391] GATHERED FROM THE TEMPEST. George Bradley

GATHERED FROM THE TEMPEST. A Poem

Bradley, George.

Andover, MA: The Acre, 2004. First Edition. Broadside. Copy #36 of 100 numbered copies signed by Bradley. Printed at the Bull Thistle Press of Jamaica, Vermont. Broadside poem printed on..... #26391

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Book #26223] CARELESS LOVE AND ITS APOSTROPHES. William Bronk

CARELESS LOVE AND ITS APOSTROPHES. Poems.

Bronk, William.

New York: Red Ozier Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Of a total edition of 175 numbered copies - 135 of which were softcover - this is copy #27 of the..... #26223

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DEVOLUTION A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

Brooks, Max.

New York: Del Rey, 2020. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Brooks on a special page bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition, first printing, with full..... #50402

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Book #50851] THE BEAUTY OF DUSK. Frank Bruni

THE BEAUTY OF DUSK On Vision Lost and Found

Bruni, Frank.

New York: Avid Reader Press, 2022. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by Bruni on the title page. From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes..... #50851

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HOMILIES AND RECREATIONS.

Buchan, John.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1926]. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #6 of 200 numbered copies signed by Buchan. Essays and addresses by the great English writer also known as..... #27695

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Book #50821] THE ADDING MACHINE. William S. Burroughs

THE ADDING MACHINE Selected Essays

Burroughs, William S.

New York: Seaver Books, 1986. First American Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Selected Essays. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Burroughs on the title page. 8vo cloth & boards. #50821

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Book #27319] MILLIONS OF IMAGES/ THE HIPSTER BE-BOP JUNKIE. Words by Burroughs and Music by Gus...

MILLIONS OF IMAGES/ THE HIPSTER BE-BOP JUNKIE. Words by Burroughs and Music by Gus Van Sant.

Burroughs, William S.

New York: Dutch East India Trading, 1990, 1985. First Edition. Lp record. 45 rpm vinyl stereo record, housed in a black printed record sleeve with titles and publication history. #27319

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THE RETREAT DIARIES.

Burroughs, William S.

New York: The City Moon, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Burroughs on the title page. One of 2,000 copies. Price of $2.50 on the rear wrapper. There..... #50820

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MIND OF MY MIND (REVIEW COPY).

Butler, Octavia E.

New York: Doubleday, 1977. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Review copy with publicity slip of the first printing of Butler's second published book and second novel in the PATTERNIST..... #50718

Price: $1,500.00 save 15% $1,275.00

PARABLE OF THE SOWER.

Butler, Octavia E.

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, first printing with complete number line on copyright page. First installment in Butler's excellent, two-book..... #50777

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WILD SEED (SIGNED & INSCRIBED).

Butler, Octavia E.

New York: Doubleday, 1980. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Fourth novel published in the PATTERNIST series, although, chronologically first in the story. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY BUTLER on the..... #50720

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Book #50739] EREWHON REVISITED. Samuel Butler

EREWHON REVISITED Twenty Years Later Both by the Original Discover of the Country and by His Son

Butler, Samuel.

London: Grant Richards, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Satirical novel and sequel to EREWHON (1872). Explores similar themes to the first book and is sometimes compared to Jonathan Swift's..... #50739

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CONTAINMENT (CHILDREN OF OCCAM, BOOK 1).

Cantrell, Christian.

Seattle: 47North, 2012. First Edition / Trade Paperback Original. Softcover. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. First edition thus of technically the second edition of Cantrell's first book..... #50454

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SCORPION.

Cantrell, Christian.

New York: Random House, 2021. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Sci-fi techno thriller by the author of CONTAINMENT and KINGMAKER. #50453

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Book #51041] THE NAME ABOVE THE TITLE. Frank Capra

THE NAME ABOVE THE TITLE An Autobiography (Inscribed by Capra)

Capra, Frank

New York: MacMillan, 1971. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY CAPRA on the half-title page. First printing of this engaging autobiography of the legendary Hollywood director. Capra recounts his..... #51041

Price: $200.00 save 15% $170.00

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.

Carroll, Lewis.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500 copies numbered and SIGNED by Alice Hargreaves ("the original Alice"), of which this is copy #34. Beautifully rebound..... #50871

Price: $2,000.00 save 15% $1,700.00

Book #50611] LONELINESS: AN OUTBURST OF HEXASYLLABLES. Hayden Carruth

LONELINESS: AN OUTBURST OF HEXASYLLABLES With Prints By Claire Van Vliet

Carruth, Hayden.

Newark, West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1976. First Edition / Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition, one of 150 copies NUMBERED & SIGNED by Carruth and the printer. 8vo..... #50611

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Book #30459] CALL IF YOU NEED ME. The Uncollected Fiction & Prose. Ray Carver

CALL IF YOU NEED ME. The Uncollected Fiction & Prose (With Bookplate Signed by Tess Gallagher)

Carver, Ray.

London: Harvill Press, 2000. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Edited by William L. Stull. Loosely laid in is a bookplate SIGNED by poet Tess Gallagher, who wrote the foreword..... #30459

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WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE.

Carver, Raymond.

New York: Vintage Books, 1982. First Vintage Books Edition, First Printing. Softcover. First paperback edition of this collection of stories, originally published in hardcover by Knopf a year earlier. #50999

Price: $30.00 save 15% $25.50

TELL IT ALL.

Carver, Raymond; Gallagher, Tess; Stull, William L. (editor).

Roma: Leconte editore, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Selection of unpublished writings, including two one-act plays written with Tess Gallagher. Edited by WIlliam L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll. Text is..... #50788

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